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Some more stuff you may find interesting (I did):
- Clay Shirky at Web 2.0 Expo SF 2008. Everybody is pointing to this shortish speech by Clay Shirky and it’s easy to see why, as he explains as well as anybody what this new age we’re in is all about.
- Slowing economy hands Torstar a loss. Some newspaper biz news from this side of the border, which reads a lot like the newspaper biz news from the other side of the border.
- Location-based technology + journalism. And now we have LoJo (great band, by the way), to add to the mix of emerging storytelling forms and platforms.
- Video: World’s first full-size e-paper newspaper. Steve Yelvington doesn’t like this at all, and it’s one of those proof-of-concept things that I doubt will ever fly, but still….
- Chris Anderson on the Loss of Journalism Jobs. A brief recap of a much-hyped speech by the Wired editor. Includes this: “… my bet is that there’s still a place for a vibrant commercial media going forward but that our role is going to be different than it was before.”
- There Will Be Blood. Stewart Pittman has an entertaining post that passes along a message I try to make sure my journalists-to-be really dig: this journalism thing is hard work.
- 2007 OPC Award Winners. More award-winning journalism goodness, this time from the Overseas Press Club of America. Would be much more interesting if they provided links of any kind to any of the winning entries.
- How non-readers in Hong Kong make money from free newspapers. There’s gold in them there free newspapers, at least for elderly Hong Kong recyclers.
- Interactive, engaged, profitable media. Tom Abate, who has written a veritable book about the new world (and challenges) of newspapering over the past month or so, has another spot-on post, this one about how two-way is the way media needs to go.
- How do we fund journalism in future? Roy Greenslade has a report from an Aussie conference, where this was the big question. His post is a good, light summary: the discussion in the comments is fascinating. So is Jay Rosen’s related essay, “Where’s the Business Model for News, People?”, which requires a long, thoughtful reading.
